THE United States is supporting the rehabilitation of the Baguio City Museum through a grant worth P6.5 million. “Through the State Department’s Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), we are working together to build the Museum’s capacity to care for its wonderful collection of artifacts and cultural objects from the [...]
FORMER Vice President Leni Robredo will be the principal sponsor of the wedding of Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz and her coach - trainer Julius Naranjo in Baguio City. Diaz and Naranjo will tie the knot on July 26, one year after Diaz won the Philippines’ first Olympic gold medal [...]
THE Baguio City government has revived the hop-on-hop-off (HoHo) bus system to accommodate the growing levels of traffic in the city brought about by increasing tourist numbers bringing along their private cars. Relaunched on July 15, the buses are expected to pull some 50 vehicles out of the city’s roads [...]
You can dress as a “native” if you wanted to, but there are photo studios in Baguio where you wear a g-string and Ibaloi tapis with a pine forest backdrop. You can even wear a rattan headgear or a bungkaka, a bamboo buzzer which creates a buzz when you strike [...]
IN celebration of the June pride month, Baguio-Benguet joined the colorful festival and events spearheaded by the Northern Luzon pride, with the theme “segged for love.” In a Metro Baguio pride press conference, Northern Luzon Pride convenor Mx Kiki Krunch expressed that the word 'segged' is an Iloco term which [...]
THE Baguio City cultural mapping project has recently concluded, tagging some 600 objects, sites and buildings as objects of interest worth including in cultural landscaping projects. Donna Rillera-Tabangin, head of the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO), said that the cultural mapping has catalogued the 600 items and placed them [...]
A 53-YEAR old engineer and person deprived of liberty (PDL) at the Baguio City Jail has developed a working solar-powered gasifier device during his time interred. “Rex,” whose real name has been withheld, developed the device after giving a proposal to jail management to let him more productively use his [...]
AN octogenarian Singaporean residing in Baguio City has recently become the oldest person to ever climb Mt. Apo, the tallest mountain of the Philippines. 80-year old Peter Chong, who lives in Baguio with his wife, began the ascent to the 2,954 meter-high peak of Mt. Apo from the Kapatagan starting [...]
THE local government of Baguio and the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) have entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the conservation and rehabilitation management of the Diplomat Hotel in advance of its redevelopment into a creative hub for the culture and arts of Baguio City. [...]
BAGUIO City launched the “Baguio Coffee and Rabbit Food Festival” on Friday, May 27 this year at the Igorot Garden. Held by the city government and the the City Veterinary and Agriculture Office (CVAO), the festival is intended to showcase and promote both Baguio Arabica coffee and rabbit meat. According [...]
